The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-15


table. She showed it to DR.. Fletcher ard he
took it out. They had had strong butter before,
but never any with maggots init.
Mary Green, another attendant. testified that
she saw the butter with skippsfs ii it. She dis
covered it after meal had been eaten off it. 1t
was in September or October. The butter was
strong sometimes. This butter had travelled
from the stewards room and kitchen before 1t
was stopped.
Dr. Sarah Stockton, physician in the female 1
department having charge of wards Nos. l, g 3,
4, 5, 6 and Ii. testified that she had been there
little more than three years. She observed the
butter with shippers In it after it was reported
to her by attendants that it chad worms in it."
She told the attendants they must not put it On
the tables for the patients. Witness did not eat
butter herself, but had noticed before that at
times the butter was bad and had disagreeabe
odor. The butter with worms in it, to which
her attention had been called, was shown her
during the month of October the 22d or 23d Of
that month. 1t was not an uncommon thing to
have reports of bad butter. There is now no
one in the kitchen to inspect food that is sent
up.
William Cain testified that he had been con-
nected with the Hospital for the Insane, and
would have been away from there three years
next june He was there about sixteen months,
first as an attendant, the last five months
assistant cook. also helping the butcher at times.
AS cook he had An opportunity to observe the
character of the food and the cooking. Some
stuff used there was not fit to be cooked let
Prunes, currants and rice were bad. The prunes
were sometimes rough, rusty and dry. There
were worms In the currants and the rice had a
black cookie in it. Schimmel, the head cook.
was not good cook at ALL He mixed and
slopped everything up together He would
take in the morning meat that had been cooked
the evening before, take out the bones, chop the
meat into chunks, put it in pot and pour lot
of hot water over it. then mix up lot of -four
and pour over it, He would then dish this up
and send it to the patients for their breakfast
He didn't consider this very savory dish. He
had seen samples that the board of trustees had
taken bids on and then saw the goods delivered,
which were not to be compared with the sam
pies sent This occurred quite often while wit
ness was in the kitchen Butter was often bad
He nad seen Roth refuse to take things that
vera brought. and then seen Hall talk to Roth
He don't know what the conversation was, but
afterwards saw the goods unoaded, accepted
and afterwards used. He had seen diseased
hogs at the hospital, and hogs lying dead in the
pens. One time carload OF hogs was unload
ed that it was said Dr. Harrison had bought.
They looked very sickly. In helping to kill hogs
they. were knocked down with an AK in the pens.
He had seen hogs lying dead in the pens from
disease, while killing other hogs. The hogs that
they said DR.. Harrison had bought looked like
they had the cholera. They had had bad butter
five or six times every month, or oftener. he
saw worms in the currants, and the currants
wore used. He had seen bad dried apples, like
the currants, and the dried peaches also. He
not good.
Lawyer Wesner, in cross-examination asked,
referring to the sloppy dish prepared by the
head cook: Don't you know that was the very
best kind eff French dsh?"
The Witness-But we didn't have very many
French out there
The witness then described another dish. q
pudding served to the patients, which house
keepers here cut out and paste in their scrap
books. There was good deal of complaint
about this pudding from the unreasonable
patients who had apparently as little knowledge
of what was good for them the boys of Mr.
Squeers's admirable institution at Dotheboys
Hall. Yorkshire This pudding was composed
of dried bread, skim milk poured over it, the
wormy currants put in, with some eggs broken
into the mess, and cooked in that way.
Mr.. Wesner tried the witness again. In de-
scribing the appearance of sick hogs. he said he
knew it was cholera from the dead-like appear
ance of the hair and the way it curled.
Mr.. Wesner-Don't you know that the finest
hogs we have, the Poland -Chinas, have curly
hair?
The Wtness-There were no Poland -Chinas
in that gang.
The investigation then adjourned until 7:3C P.
NJ to-day. AS the investigation of the Indiana
Tewksbury was going on there was much talk
about rumors of the influences that are being
practiced upon witnesses to color their testi-
mony. 1t is said that DIR. Harrison keeps q close
watch after all the employees who are summoned
and manages to have interviews with everyone.
It is said that he has very significantly told
some of these persons that he Twill not forget
his friends" and that he ''has good memory.
signaling Of the witness on the part of the Doc
tor when the witness, in testifying, begins to gel
| upon dangerous ground